Saturday, 30 July 2016

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when Drew Millard came off as the most likeable character in teh great ironic h*pster N.Y media mafia civil war of 2016. No shots - at least Millard knows Jackie Chain isn't "a white guy".

Other notables: Ezale deserves a dead arm from Will High for promising We Want Some and then going silent; 21 Savage's whole Chinese Jordan GBE shtick is not for me but No Heart jams; Lavish D's Where's Waldo? is 2016's most unpleasant dis record; couldn't find any keepers on the new TRILL compilation.

Tuesday, 26 July 2016

What do u do when Ezale and Nef The Pharaoh both take forever to drop their respective summer slaps and the Jimmy Wopo song you've been waitin' on has an unnecessary Sonny Digital cameo? You whip up the ultimate stopgap post in the form of a list where you identify your favorite rap song of each year from 1979 to 2015. Personal canon or just the type of parlour game one plays during another sleepless night when the country is gripped by a heatwave? Blog game Best of Both Worlds, tbh.

Sunday, 24 July 2016

How come Lavish D is allowed to record albums in prison? More importantly, how come Lavish D is allowed to record songs threatening Mozzy's life and implicating himself in ordering various shootings of Mozzy's crew from prison? It'd be tempting to call Lavish the Vybz Kartel of rap but even the World Boss couldn't get away with a pokyhumous song like Where's Waldo?:

"Even tho you lyin' in your songs, you can rap good
You can be the next Denzel, you can act good
The lil' homies catch you, they gon' smoke you like a backwood
Even yo' fans be sayin' shit that a rat would"

Friday, 22 July 2016

Shout outs to YouTube, the HD uncensored version of Guns N' Roses' 1988 show at The Ritz is on that bitch! Peep how Axl Rose's snakeskin jacket glistens like jizm under moonlight, and hear the G.O.A.T rawk song of the '80s free from any of MTV's annoying bleeping during its profane final third:

L.A's Streetz is talkin' and they reckon that Axl's trademark Snake Dance was just a modified Crip Walk for white ppl. The proof is in the prancing:

Tuesday, 19 July 2016

LOOK AT WHAT KAP G'S BROUGHT TO THE TABLE THESE PAST 3 YEARS: a wildly inconsistent catalogue for sure, but when he does come correct, the College Park Mexican is one of the few distinct artists in modern Atlanta rap. Here's a best of playlist from someone who's been ridin' for Kurious George Ramierez since 2013: tagless MP3s for all the song which exist no-DJ, tagged MP3s for the few song which don't. "Call Me David I'm The One To Drake" for the tagless F*ck La Policia MP3 which isn't available on any British retail/streaming service - Brexit done built a wall already?

Short & not-so-sweet Jacka deep cut from the same AP.9 compilation Aspen originally appeared on. In a perfect world where rappers don't leave key songs off their own albums, Rule The World woulda been the regal intro track on Tear Gas with Aspen following it as the opening song proper.

Tuesday, 12 July 2016

After decades of speculation about whether Simon Reynolds views the voices of ethnic minorities in rap music as a minor texture to be endured rather than enjoyed, his Wire magazine review of KanYe West's last album finally confirms what many of us have suspected all along: Grimey Simey™ doesn't care about blk ppl.

Whereas Reynolds would usually dismiss Rap's labyrinthine complex stories of life in AmeriKKKa as "some same old shit about bling and hoes" he tolerates purely for the thrill of the Mantronix/Bomb Squad/Dr. Dre/Timbaland/Mannie Fresh/Neptunes/Lil' Jon/DJ Mustard production backing it, his Life Of Pablo review finally makes it explicitly clear that he's always viewed the black voices in rap music as an undesirable sub-human nuisance he'd hate to share airspace with let alone swap bodies with on some Castor Troy shit:

Moral of this story? As far as ex-Melody Maker scribes called Simon go, even Pricey has less #problematic views about ethnic minorities than Grimey Simey™.

Monday, 11 July 2016

If you were a teacher's pet in junior school who went on to get bullied in high school then chances are you became a pig as an adult. F*ck all bizzies except Officer Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo and the blonde bird from Reno 911. 22 great rap songs which are none too complimentary about the rozzers:

Thursday, 7 July 2016

Upped my best of Fam-Lay compilation to the 'mack because I'm tryna get ya browser Skrung Owt in 2016. You either lyin' or you deaf as Foxy Brown if you claim this isn't a top five Martorialist playlist of all time.

Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Personal favourite unreleased O.G version 2Pac song right here. Apparently intended for the Thug Life album and presumably mothballed because of the George Benson sample. Quite fancy the notion of it being an exclusive on the Above The Rim OST, meself - Lord knows that compilation could have done with a few more rap songs in among all those lukewarm R&B jams.

Remember when Suge Knight & Dr. Dre shelved the exclusive 1994 Dogg Pound & Nate Dogg bangeur featured in Above The Rim's obligatory club scene, probably so they could include one of those two shitty Jewell songs on the movie's OST instead? Thankfully, it turned up on the Sunset Park soundtrack 2 years later in 1996, albeit with its title switched from Mobbin' With Tha Dogg Pound to Just Doggin'.

Dreezy & Jeremih's Body is probably a tad too old and obvious by now, but I'll be damned if it hasn't blossomed into my holding summer jam of 2016. Conversely, Carolyn Rodriguez & Kap G's On The Grind is my favourite song of the moment which absolutely nobody else gives a f*ck about - where's the luv 4 Latino Rap & Bullshit songs with air-guitar potential?

The unlikely scenario where the Elm Street kid from Pittsburgh drops another blamger. File this under ‘there's life in the old Get Up Offa That Thing break yet’ and ‘rap videos which abandon their sub-plot halfway through.’ Did the white kid get outta Wopo's neighbourhood in one piece or is he lost in time like the spannered penalties in the Italy/Germany game? Who knows, but Wopo is a right motormouth of a rapper with this one.